Memorize · review
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No clear goal. No clear antagonist. The last 3 chapters were the only "tension", which I define as not knowing if the MC or his party members would survive. Too little of those moments, in effect made fight results predictable. The harem route in the end was just fanservice to increase attention. The MC never showed romantic affection ever, just he touched her face and he became a different person for a couple pages. Afterward, numerous romantic jokes toward the MC was made. If there's a positive, the blue hair did increase confidence after their woo-hoo - but not noticeably. Very inconsistent and ineffective useof romance and character development.
The highlight of characters were the red hair (demon sword) and brown hair (energy shield?). Red hair remained cocky and weak, and upgraded in later chapters as stronger than brown hair. She consistently fought in the foreground since her upgrade. Here, a romantic option made sense. She expressed fear of him throwing her away, just like the blue hair girl - but the difference is she was actually weak. She locked herself in the room, cried and it made the MC very paranoid to the extent he would break in her room to check on her. the brown hair worrying about red hair's safety also was good character development. The competitive nature is a cause to their personalities, its a downscore to not show their training - as the cause is to upscore the other.
The lucky priest - a childish crybaby and her whole use of her power is un-needed healing and giving directions to the MC who already knows the directions. The spider girl had great potential. Not being conscious when she was there enemy and the blue hair struggling to accept her since she killed her sister, the progression was skipped and affected neither not one bit. Didn't make each other closer, neither showed actions of their attempts to trust eachother.
MC showed rage against past enemies, and loneliness when thinking of where his comrades are. He seeks to not make the same mistakes. his character development was removing his belief he knew everything about dungeons once it almost killed everyone. Events went too smooth for him though, this was only the last few chapters. He knew how to benefit from all interactions due intellegence or past interactions from his last life- for example with the shadow queen. To learn the story's lesson right before the story was axed is really underwhelming.
Shadow queen, not much to say about this one. Could've kept MC on his toes with tricks like she used to kiss him and steal his swords. Picking on people and sarcasm are the humorous elements to her personality.
The art multiplied later chapters, didn't change my attention though - It was clear enough from the beginning. It kept my attention, by default it's very good. The lack of tension and dynamic characters keeps it from being great.